Poets & Writers

The Intangibles

THERE are some aspects of a graduate writing program that cannot be quantified—qualities that don’t fit neatly on a spreadsheet, facets that can’t be summed up on a university website or in an application packet. These are the elements of a program that MFA graduates might hold on to even more tightly than their diplomas—the skills and lessons, experiences and connections they’ll carry with them for the rest of their writing and

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